Dr. Maya Mascarenhas took over as Chairperson of Cheshire Homes India, Bangalore from October 2021. She specializes in Paediatrics and Community Health and has wide experience in public health. She is a consultant for the National Health Systems Resource Centre, New Delhi; she has been a consultant for CINI, Share India, TNSACS, Goa SACS, NRHM, USID and several other programmes including health projects under the Ministry of Women and Child Development in Karnataka. She has been involved with NGOs working on building appropriate peoples institutions, skills development, health and agriculture development. She is the member of the High Court Monitoring Committee on Malnutrition, Karnataka state.

She is an advisory member for programmes related to maternal, sexual and reproductive health and child nutrition in partnership with NRHM, KHSDRP and Department of Women and Child Development. She has been involved in preparation of several documents, reports and training materials in the health field.She is an advisory member for programmes related to maternal, sexual and reproductive health and child nutrition in partnership with NRHM, KHSDRP and Department of Women and Child Development. She has been involved in preparation of several documents, reports and training materials in the health field.

Dr. Maya Mascarenhas joined Cheshire Homes as a Life Member in October 2020, and since has been a medical consultant for our old age home on voluntary basis.

Dr. Maya Mascarenhas also is a talented and passionate musician and is actively involved the Bangalore children’s’ choir group and spends her free evenings with a group singing and entertaining the elderly.